I never really liked cooking, but the culinary world always attracted me. My passion had been wine, so I studied and became a certificated sommelier, but wine and food are a marriage and my knowledge of one side of that equation was incomplete.

I decided to learn how to cook and enrolled in a yearlong program at Escola Wilma Kövesi de Cozinha, in São Paulo. Unexpectedly, I enjoyed cooking so much I wanted to learn more. After moving to South Florida with my husband and two daughters, I enrolled at Le Cordon Bleu where I graduated with a Bachelor's in culinary arts.It was during the “Bread Module” that I had my baking "epiphany"! Have you ever found yourself doing something you enjoyed so much you didn't notice how much time had passed? ...